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Thank you @caroline_klein for sharing your Alopecia story with us in honor of Alopecia Awareness Month! Your bold and beautiful approach is inspiring! 💙

#alopecia #alopeciaawareness #baldgirl #alopeciaareata #alopeciatotalis

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I have a goal to raise $1,111+ for the Walk for Alopecia.

And I need your help. 💜

I’ve been living with alopecia since 2014, and finding thIs alopecia community in 2023 changed my experience of life.

I found people who understood.
I made new friends.
My family found community too.
I’ve had opportunities to share my story, speak, laugh, dance, connect, and give back.

Now I want to keep giving back.

I am walking for the version of me who lived with alopecia for 9 years before she found community.

Will you help me raise $1,111+?

Donate $11. $25. $50. $111. Whatever feels good to you. Every donation gets us closer to our goal.

And as a thank you, if you donate $25+, I’ll gift you a ticket to Finding Feathers Breathwork: Body Love on September 29. ❤️

We are Team Finding Feathers.

The flock flies together. 🪶

💜 Donate by following the link in the comments or message me and I'll personally send you the link.

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Happy Alopecia Awareness Month! 🥚👨🏽‍🦲👩🏼‍🦲

If you don’t know what alopecia is, essentially it’s an autoimmune condition that can cause partial or total hair loss due to the body attacking hair follicles. This can show up as a tiny patch of hair that’s missing, which can sometimes be easy to hide, or it can show up like ME—with no hair anywhere at all on my body which is called alopecia universalis. So I’m a fully-fledged EGGVENGER🥚🦸🏽

There are other forms of alopecia, too! To give you a small, easy-to-understand guide:

Alopecia Areata: Small round patches of hair that come off anywhere on the body

Androgenetic Alopecia: AKA male-pattern or female-pattern baldness, which can show up as a receding hairline in men or gradual widening of the hair part and thinning across the top of the head in women

Telogen Effluvium: A temporary shedding usually due to the onset of stress, illness, or hormonal shifts

Traction Alopecia: Hair loss caused by lots of tight hair pulling or tight hairstyles (like braids)

Scarring (Cicatricial) Alopecia: Rare, inflammatory conditions that destroy hair follicles and replace them with scar tissue. Hair loss happens, accompanied by redness, itching, scaling, or burning of the scalp.

Someone you know may have alopecia, and you may have no idea! It’s more common that you might think. Approximately 80 MILLION people in the USA ALONE are impacted by alopecia in some form!

Regardless, my main message always is that hair does not define your worth! What alopecia has helped me and many others to do is shift our focus inward and realize that true beauty and worth comes from within, and that’s an important lesson for anyone to learn! Know you’re beautiful as you are, your uniqueness is something to be celebrated, and though they can take away your hair, they can NEVER take away WHO YOU ARE! 🤟❤️

#alopecia #alopeciaawarenessmonth #alopeciaawareness #selflove #hairloss

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Turns out I don’t have an allergy to dairy 🤠

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Super amazing getting to see the Pretties Girl in America!! (Meg Stalter was cool too I guess)

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Kinda chic.

To not let alopecia get in the way.

#kindachic #alopecia

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Kinda chic 👩🏻‍🦲💕 Alopecia edition

#alopecia #baldisbeautiful #NAAF #alopeciauniversalis #baldgirl

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HOME 🥹💙

What an incredible time last weekend with @naaf_alopecia , I’m so grateful for these beautiful friendships! This community is such a blessing to me and this conference came at the perfect time 😍

Plus, I got to lead the insightful Young Adult Panel! Discussing topics from growing up with alopecia to dating, navigating work life, and more. To the panelists: thank you for your perspectives, and thank you to everyone who attended!

July marks a decade since my reveal and being apart of the conference. In my 31 years of experiencing alopecia universalis, I’m learning each day to be confident and comfortable in myself. Not everyday has been easy, but so thankful to know that I’m never alone. The peace that I have is amazing. Thank you again NAAF for a wonderful weekend. 👩🏾‍🦲💙🫶🏾

See y’all next year! ✨

#alopecia #alopeciaawareness #alopeciaareata #alopeciauniversalis #naaf

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Eight years ago, I opened the door to an apartment in the middle of Copenhagen filled with a bunch of 20-year-old musicians. I was nervous, far from home, and feeling completely alone.

Then there was Caroline.

With the brightest smile I’d ever seen. We spent the day together, and somehow I knew I’d never feel alone again.

Fast forward eight years, and the hardest secret I’ve ever had to keep was that I was flying to Savannah to photograph her engagement to Gio.

Life has a beautiful way of bringing us full circle. From two young women finding friendship in a foreign city to standing beneath the Spanish moss, watching her say “yes” to the love of her life! It felt like witnessing time itself.

There are moments that remind you just how sacred this job is. Being trusted to preserve a story like theirs is one of them. I’ll never stop being grateful that I get to freeze these fleeting moments in time, especially for the people who have shaped my own story.

What an incredible honor it was to witness the beginning of this next chapter for the friend who made me feel at home all those years ago. Seeing her find her match in a man who gives her that same sense of home is more beautiful than words can express.

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Another year another magical NAAF✨
Nothing better than spending a weekend with people who look like me and get me on such a deep level without having to explain myself. So grateful to NAAF for creating this container and to everyone who attended and made it so special this year. Love you all 👩🏻‍🦲😘✨
@naaf_alopecia
#NAAF41conf #Alopecia #NAAF #baldgirl

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As someone that’s had alopecia since age 2, I cannot emphasize enough how meaningful it is to spend a whole weekend with other people who understand that experience first hand 🥰

It’s always such an honor getting to teach alopecia makeup techniques at @naaf_alopecia and spend time with so many incredible people who feel like instant family 💞

As someone who wears wigs everyday, and generally won’t even walk from my room to the bathroom without my wig on (despite being close with my roommates!) it’s always incredible to spend the entire weekend without wig and not even think twice about it. Even though I actually love how I look sans wig, I’m not always comfortable with the stares and questions it often garners. Someone at the conference said coming to NAAF almost feels like putting on your armor to go back into the world to be able to handle those experiences with confidence as we go back into our normal lives. And I will say I did not put a wig back on to make my way to the airport and fly home ✨

Every year, I get a little emotional about how life changing the alopecia conference would have been for me had I been going from a young age, but now I never want to miss another one as long as I can help it 💜

I love all these beautiful humans so much and have made so many lifelong connections. If you have alopecia, whether you’re new to the experience, or already feel like you’ve “conquered” it, I cannot recommend it enough 🥰

#alopecia #baldgirl #confidence

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It’s hard to believe the autoimmune disease that caused one of the loneliest chapters of my life is the same one that has given me all of these beautiful friendships and so much more.

I often say, even 11 years of bald gal life in, there’s a tiny piece of me that misses my hair every single day. Today I had a realization that at the @naaf_alopecia conference, that piece of me disappears completely. That omnipresent teeny grief bugger goes on vacation while I live my best life surrounded by the best humans who truly get it. 💙

Thank you NAAF for another beautiful weekend. Can’t wait to see you all again next year! Meet ya on the dance floor!👩🏽‍🦲🫶🪩

#alopecia #alopeciaareata #alopeciaawareness #naaf

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